[philxor]

Linux tool? Hate when everything Unix automatically gets categorized as Linux. Have used Expect for many years for many use cases from automating servers to networking use cases as well.

[lizknope]

I used Tcl and Expect on Solaris at a job in 1995

[dredmorbius]

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41272562>

[pokstad]

I’ve used Expect on Windows systems. Active State provided commercial distributions of TCL for Windows.

[hulitu]

> Hate when everything Unix automatically gets categorized as Linu

Those days, people are thought to not bother their brain with useless words and knowledge.

[1vuio0pswjnm7]

For example, expect(1) is described in the 1989 Don Libes book "Life with UNIX". Libes is the author of Expect. A title such as "Life with Linux" would probably have made little sense at the time.

[1vuio0pswjnm7]

Correction: I went back and looked at the book and it does not mention expect. According to Wikipedia expect was first released the following year, in 1990. Apologies for the inadvertence.

Nevethless I think it is safe to say that expect was not written using or for Linux as Linux was not released until 1991.

[Borborygymus]

I used to use it on HP-UX in the 90s.

[muterad_murilax]

Poor soul.